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discovery · Source published 2025-05-19

A teacher and an AI tutor after school.

A World Bank randomized trial studied a six-week, teacher-supported after-school English program in Edo State, Nigeria, where first-year senior secondary students used Microsoft Copilot powered by GPT-4.

discovery · Source published 2025-06-25

When the answer arrives too soon.

A preregistered randomized trial in a Turkish high school compared a standard GPT-4 chat interface, a teacher-informed GPT tutor with guardrails, and no generative-AI resource during mathematics study sessions.

discovery · Source published 2025-06-04

A walk that chooses what to describe.

VIPTour used the FocusFormer model and portable consumer devices to prioritize visual information for blind and low-vision visitors exploring unfamiliar environments, supporting exploration, recollection, and sharing.

discovery · Source published 2025-05-15

A screen reader that can take a follow-up question.

Google announced a rollout that let Android TalkBack users ask Gemini follow-up questions about images and about the whole screen, extending beyond one-shot image descriptions.

discovery · Source published 2025-05-14

Making room in a data center

Google DeepMind reported that an AlphaEvolve-discovered scheduling heuristic had been in production for more than a year and continuously recovered an average 0.7% of Google's worldwide compute resources.

discovery · Source published 2026-05-07

Finding more workable grid plans

Google DeepMind reported that AlphaEvolve improved a trained graph neural network's ability to find feasible solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem from 14% to more than 88%.

discovery · Source published 2025-10-16

Rehearsing a fusion pulse before it happens

Google DeepMind and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a partnership in which CFS uses the open-source TORAX plasma simulator in daily workflows to test and refine SPARC operating plans before the tokamak is turned on.

discovery · Source published 2025-02-14

Personalizing an ablation for persistent AF

A multicenter randomized, controlled, double-blind superiority trial tested whether adding AI-detected spatio-temporal electrogram-dispersion targets to pulmonary-vein isolation improves treatment of drug-refractory persistent atrial fibrillation.

discovery · Source published 2026-01-28

Reading more of a DNA change's consequences

AlphaGenome is a unified DNA-sequence model that takes up to 1 Mb of DNA and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks, including gene expression, splicing, chromatin features, transcription-factor binding, and contact maps.

discovery · Source published 2025-09-04

Quieting the mirrors that listen to space

Researchers developed Deep Loop Shaping, a reinforcement-learning feedback controller tested on the LIGO Livingston Observatory to reduce control noise in a difficult mirror-control loop.

discovery · Source published 2025-03-13

A model whose full recipe is visible.

Ai2 released OLMo 2 32B, a language model accompanied by publicly available data, code, weights, training details, and a reproducible training recipe.

discovery · Source published 2025-03-18

Reasoning models with more of the toolkit in view.

NVIDIA announced the Llama Nemotron Nano and Super reasoning models, alongside plans to make the post-training tools, datasets and optimization techniques openly available.

discovery · Source published 2025-08-05

Reasoning weights people can run themselves.

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b as Apache-2.0 open-weight reasoning models, with downloadable weights and reference implementations for local deployment.

discovery · Source published 2025-04-29

Choosing when a model thinks longer.

The Qwen team released and described Qwen3, a family of dense and mixture-of-experts language models with selectable thinking and non-thinking modes.

discovery · Source published 2025-03-03

A warehouse inventory check that rolls itself.

GXO reported the successful completion of a pilot at its Oosterhout warehouse in the Netherlands, where a Dexory robot autonomously scanned inventory and produced real-time digital inventory models.

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A warehouse robot that knows when to stop squeezing.

Amazon describes Vulcan, a fulfillment-center robot that combines vision with force-feedback sensors to pick and stow items in crowded inventory bins and hand difficult cases to a person.

discovery · Source published 2025-07-23

Finding a missing line's ancient neighbors.

Aeneas is a multimodal model that helps historians contextualize damaged Latin inscriptions by retrieving parallels, proposing restorations, and estimating geographic and chronological attribution.

discovery · Source published 2025-11-18

A public archive that starts with your question.

The National Archives announced that its new The American Story museum exhibition would use AI-driven portals to tailor historical-record exploration to visitors' stated interests, with a route to revisit content online.

discovery · Source published 2026-03-11

An open reasoning model with its recipe beside it.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super, an open 120-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 12 billion active parameters, plus stated releases of its methodology, data, reinforcement-learning environments, and evaluation recipes.

discovery · Source published 2025-12-17

A world-class forecast now fits on one machine.

Weather forecasting has spent fifty years as one of the largest users of supercomputing. AI models trained on the archive now produce comparable global forecasts in minutes, and the weights are published. The measurements they depend on are the part that has not become cheap.